Name: The Trade Desk Platform
Rating: 4.6 (310 reviews)

Overview

Service Information on The Trade Desk Platform

Updated 9th June 2025

What is The Trade Desk Platform?

The Trade Desk's demand-side platform enables programmatic segment-based advertising by aggregating data from multiple sources to create detailed audience segments, then using real-time bidding algorithms to automatically purchase ad inventory when users matching those segments become available across various exchanges and platforms. The platform leverages Unified ID 2.0 for cross-device tracking, allowing consistent targeting as users move between phones, tablets, and desktops, while machine learning continuously optimizes campaigns by analyzing segment performance and adjusting bidding strategies to focus budget on the highest-converting audiences. This approach enables advertisers to reach precise audience segments at scale while The Trade Desk handles the complex technical infrastructure of real-time bidding, data integration, and cross-platform execution.

Overall experience with The Trade Desk Platform

Regional Director, Media Buying

50M - 250M USD, Media

FAVORABLE

“Trade Desk Revolutionizes OTT Inventory Accessibility”

5.0

Oct 17, 2024

The Trade Desk makes it easy to tap into OTT inventory from a variety of sources. Advertisers can set up their own direct deals with publishers, or they can tap into deals already created by Trade Desk. As of recently, Trade Desk has also introduced the Sellers and Publishers 500+, curating the best of the open internet, including OTT.

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About Company

Company Description

The company's primary focus is providing a media buying platform geared towards the open internet. It aims to facilitate marketers in reaching a larger audience by offering enhanced transparency and choice throughout all stages, from planning to pricing to performance. The company's primary business problem that it solves is creating an accessible, unbiased marketplace on the internet for ideas, content and commerce. By prioritizing the idea of the open internet, the organization is dedicated to maintaining the internet landscape's inclusivity and openness.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2009

Head office location

Ventura, United States

Number of employees

1001 - 5000

Website

http://www.thetradedesk.com

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Reviewer Insights for: The Trade Desk Platform

The Trade Desk Platform Likes & Dislikes

1. Multiple options for targeting and blocking inventory. 2. Content signals and pushing for transparency from publishers. 3. Metrics like TVQI (TV Quality Index) to help us understand more about the inventory in which our ads are running. 4. Pricing transparency with media costs, data costs, platform fees, and feature fees. 5. Aggregation of sites/apps/entities to roll up to Publisher field. 6. Cross-device graph allows conversion tracking from OTT devices to other user or household devices.

customer service and support is second to none. the logical (yet very complicated behind the scenes) way this platform is built almost instant optimizations

Support, industry leading tech

1. Deal delivery troubleshooting tools are only available at the ad group level (cannot do partner-wide troubleshooting) 2. Koa can sometimes apply drastic bid factors to publishers. 3. Would like more detailed step-by-step information in the Knowledge Portal.

i cant think of any negatives

No dynamic feed options, more partner level libraries, no more planning tool

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The Trade Desk Platform Reviews and Ratings

Recommended Gartner Insights

50M-1B USD

Media

Review Source

Trade Desk Revolutionizes OTT Inventory Accessibility

REGIONAL MANAGER, MEDIA BUYING

Impressive Outcomes with OTT on TTD Platform

Oct 13, 2024

ttd is simply a great platform for our agency needs. weve run multi-millions in OTT and have had great support and results.

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

Consumer Goods

Great product, excellent service.

Oct 21, 2024

Excellent experience. Has been my preferred DSP for years.

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